• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capturing one clip but ending up with more

  Posted by Eric Bray on October 21, 2008 at 3:36 am

  Why when I capture a dv tape in its entirety, does it give me more than one clip? It’s capturing everything it’s supposed to so I guess I shouldn’t complain. I’m just wondering what’s happening here?

  Eric Bray replied 17 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Alan Smith

  October 21, 2008 at 2:24 pm

  [Eric Bray] “Why when I capture a dv tape in its entirety, does it give me more than one clip?”

  Check your User Preferences. There is an option for “On Timecode Break:” if that is set to Make New Clip, then each time FCP encounters a timecode break, it will make a new clip and keep digitizing.

  Alan

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  Nick Meyers

  October 21, 2008 at 3:03 pm

  2 possible causes:

  1. you have “limit capture / file size” ticked in your FCP system settings

  2. your drive is formatted MS DOS

  the first is not a huge problem, but you are asking for trouble, so best to turn it off.

  the second (wrongly formatted drive) IS a problem.
  you cant fix that without erasing all the media from it.
  so you’d have to copy all the media across to another drive before you re-format it.

  nick
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  Eric Bray

  October 21, 2008 at 3:33 pm

  Okay thanks, it was just some settings that needed changed.

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